Tombstone epitaph., 1887-11-26
APPLICATIONS FOR PATENT.
First Publication Sept. TO- 1s87.) APPLICATION FOR U. s, PATENT NO. 4se.
Notice of Application of Charles w. Leach. for & Patent 10 the Southern Belle
 Mining Claim.

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
 TUCSON, Arz., September 2, A. D. 1887. ] To ALL WHOM IT MAY CoNCERN:
 Notice is hereby given that Charles w. Leach whose postoffice address is tombstone, Arizona, has filed an application in this office for a United States patent for fourteen hundred and sxth-three linear feet of the Southern Belle mining claim, vein, lode or mineral deposit, bearing silver and gold. with surface ground six hundred feet in width lying and being situated in the Tombstone Mining District. in the County of Cochise and Territory of Ari- zona, and the said Charles w. Leach being now about to make application through this office to the United States for a patent for said mining claim, which claim is more fully and particularly described as to metes and bounds by the official plat and field notes of survey thereof now On file with the Register of the U. S. land office at Tucson Arizona, which field notes of survey describe the boundaries and extent of said claim on the surface with magnetic variation at IF 43' East as follows, to-wit:
 Beginning at the initial monument mentioned in the location notice. and marking the south westerly end center of the claim, at post 4 inches square in 8 mound of stone, post marked I. M S. B. M. C. No. T; thence s 8o' 2I' E 300 feet to a 4 inch post marked 5. B. M C. Mo- 2; thence 430 I7 E I25a.7 feet to a 4 inch post marked $. B. M. C. No. 3; thence N 38' 37 w 70 feet, intersect east line of Modoc M. C. lot No. Io6, N 22o 5o' 66 feet from post marked M. M. C. No. 3, 2os feet intersect center line of clam, N 4o' 33 E Is5 feet from N 8o' aI' w 3I3 feet, interscct south end line of Michigan Central M. C. south 650 o4' E 30 feet from post marked $ Ex G. C. No. 2, SIS feet intersect south end line of Modoc M. C. lot No. Io6, $ 6I' IS E 2o feet from post marked s Ex G. C. No. and 49 feet from post marked M. N.. O. No. 4 3sI feet intersect easterly side line S. Ex G. C. M. C. lot No. 43. s 380 SO w I5.5 feet from location monument, post inches square marked s. B. M C. No. $, from which U. $. M. M. No. I bears N 3o' I7' w 1907 feet distant, the quarter section corner between sections I3 and I8 east boundary T 20 $ R 22 bears s 7o' o4, E a 4 inch post marked S B. NJ C. No. 6; thence S9' ar E 284 feet to post No. I the place of beginning survey of exterior lines. Area I6. 628 acres. The conflict of .8a acres with Michigan Central M. C. is not claimed by the applicant, leaving the net area II 8o3 res claimed. This mining claim is of record in the office of the County Recorder of Cochise County. in the Territory of Arizona The presumed general course or direction of the said vein lode or mineral deposit of the snid Southern Belle Mining Claim being shown as near as can be determined from present developments, upcn the said official plat thereof on file with the Register of the Land Omce as aforeSald; the claim now sought to be patented, being fourteen hundred and sixty three linear feet thereof, together with the surface ground shown upon said official plat, the same being bounded as follows to-wit: On the Northeast by the Michigan Central Lot No. I79, on the Southeast by the Vanguard, on the Southwest by the Rodman and on the Northwest by the s. Ex. Grand Central Lot No 43. The same claim being designated as Lot Mo- Ioo, and survey No. 8I5 on the official plat of said mining claim filed with the Register of the land office as aforesaid. -tf Any and all persons claiming adversely the mining ground, vein. lode or premises or any part thereof, so described, surveyed, plated and patent applied for, are hereby notified that un- less their adverse claims are duly filed with the Register of the U. $. Land Office at Tucson, in the Territory of Arizona, during the sixty days publication of this notice, they will be forever barred from asserting any such claims.
 And hereby order that this notice be pub lished for ten (Io) weeks in the Tombstone Weekly EPITAPH, a newspaper published in the Town of Tombstone, in the County of Cochise, l erritory of Arizona.
 A. D. DUFF, Register.